Dell Magazines has announced the winners of the 2017 Dell Magazine Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. The contest has run every year since 1994 with prizes presented at the ICFA in Orlando.

Winner: “Noor,” by Taimur Ahmad of Princeton University

First Runner-up: “The Food of Love,” by Claire Spaulding, Columbia University

Second Runner-up: “Questions for Oretta,” by Alexandra Barr, University of Alberta

Third Runner-up: “Braidwood Rings,” by Pearl Lorentzen, University of Alberta

Honorable Mention: “Everyone is Split,” by Taimur Ahmad, Princeton University

Honorable Mention: “Everything, in Both Hands,” by Alina Sichevaya, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill